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javascript_howto thread: A need for popup-menus


Message #1 by "Per Belling" <per@c...> on Tue, 7 Aug 2001 17:41:27
I have a need for showing popup-menus on various spots on my application 
window. I have developed somthing that should do the trick: I use CSS to 
control the position and visibility of my menu-elements. My menu consists 
of a number of buttons - each with their own style. They are placed close 
together to make the look like a menu. Being an input element I can give 
focus to anyone of the buttons, when I show the menu. But buttons have one 
problem: They like to center the button text, which looks messy in a menu. 
Therefore all the buttons are without text. The menu-text instead comes 
from a separate set of texts - again each of them with their own style, 
and they also have their own onclick-handler. It all looks and works quite 
nice, but I cannot help feeling if it could be done in a more simple and
hence elengant way (the HTML-document is a fairly complex thing). Does 
anyone else have experiences with popups?

Per Belling

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